Enspel

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	Coordinates: 50 ° 37 '  N , 7 ° 53'  E
Basic data
State :	Rhineland-Palatinate
County :	Westerwaldkreis
Association municipality :	Westerburg
Height :	390 m above sea level NHN
Area :	1.46 km 2
Residents:	267 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	183 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	57647
Area code :	02661
License plate :	WW
Community key :	07 1 43 219
Association administration address:	Neumarkt 1 56457 Westerburg
Website :	www.enspel.de
Local Mayor :	Dieter Wisser
Location of the local community Enspel in the Westerwaldkreis

Enspel is a municipality in the Westerwaldkreis in Rhineland-Palatinate . It belongs to the community of Westerburg .

Geographical location

Enspel is located 10 km northwest of Westerburg , on a hill on the western slope of the Stöffel , a basalt mountain . The structure of the place is characterized by the nearby basalt quarries, in which basalt rock has been mined since around 1900. The mighty fractures and rock outcrops in the Stöffel are worth seeing .

history

In 1261 Enspels was first mentioned as Encenmulen . The place, which originally belonged to the County of Diez , fell to the House of Nassau-Dillenburg through inheritance in 1386 . After the establishment of the Rhine Confederation in 1806, Enspel was added to the newly founded Duchy of Nassau . After the German War in 1866, Nassau became part of Prussia . The place belonged to the parish and court of Rotenhain from the second half of the 15th century at the latest . Enspel was detached from the parish in 1563 in the course of the Reformation and parish changed to Marienberg . In the 20th century, the Stöffel mouse was found in the Enspel fossil site.

Population development

The development of the population of Enspel, the values ​​from 1871 to 1987 are based on censuses:

year Residents 1815 74 1835 115 1871 112 1905 181 1939 257

year Residents 1950 262 1961 255 1970 298 1987 273 2005 280

Molhusen

Molhusen was located around 500 meters north-northwest of Enspel. It is first mentioned in 1511 and must have fallen desolate before 1525 .

politics

Municipal council

Local government

The council in Enspel consists of six council members, who in the local elections on May 26, 2019 in a majority vote were elected, and the honorary mayor as chairman. Until 2009, the council had eight council members.

mayor

In the direct election on May 26, 2019, Dieter Wisser was confirmed in his office as local mayor for another five years with a vote share of 76.77%.

coat of arms

Blazon : "In a wave cut split by gold and blue, in front a black mallet and iron , accompanied above and below by a basalt paving stone, behind a red-tongued, red-armored golden lion."

The lion is the heraldic animal of the House of Nassau , gold and blue are the colors of the Counts of Nassau. Mallets and iron (mining symbol) as well as paving stones represent the basalt mining as the economic basis of the place. The wavy line symbolizes the horns .

Economy and Infrastructure

traffic

Enspel stop (for trains going north)

• The B 255 runs south of the community and runs from Montabaur to Herborn .
• The next motorway junction is Montabaur on the A3 .
• The place Enspel has a train stop on the railway line Oberwesterwaldbahn ( Limburg an der Lahn  - Diez Ost - Westerburg  - Nistertal / Bad Marienberg  - Hachenburg  - Altenkirchen (Westerwald)  - Au (Sieg)  - Betzdorf  - Siegen  - Kreuztal ), which is served by the trains the line RB 90 of the Hessische Landesbahn is served daily every hour according to the Rhineland-Palatinate cycle .
• At the Au (Sieg) train station there is a connection in the direction of Cologne , Siegburg / Bonn and Siegen.
• At Limburg (Lahn) train station, there is a connection to regional trains in the direction of Frankfurt am Main , Wiesbaden , Koblenz , Gießen / Fulda and Montabaur / Siershahn .

Public facilities

• Volunteer firefighter
• Village community center "Stöffelhalle"
• Guesthouse “Am Stöffel” self-catering
• Log cabin
• Access to the tertiary and industrial adventure park Stöffel

Sons and daughters of the church

• Aloys Baldus (1871–1938), Roman Catholic theologian, educator and author

See also

• List of cultural monuments in Enspel

literature

• Hellmuth Gensicke : Parish and court of Rotenhain. In: Nassau Annals . 79th Volume, 1968, pp. 241-262.
• Hellmuth Gensicke: State history of the Westerwald. Historical commission for Nassau, Wiesbaden 1999.
• Willi Müller-Behr: 100 years of the industrial village of Enspel yesterday and today! Local community Enspel, Enspel 1993.

Web links

Commons : Enspel  - collection of images

• Internet presence of the local community Enspel
• Local community Enspel on the website of the Verbandsgemeinde Westerburg

Individual evidence

1. ↑ State Statistical Office of Rhineland-Palatinate - population status 2019, districts, communities, association communities ( help on this ).
2. ↑ Müller-Behr 1993, p. 16.
3. ↑ State Statistical Office Rhineland-Palatinate - regional data
4. ^ The Regional Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: Local elections 2019, city and municipal council elections
5. ^ The Regional Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: direct elections 2019. see Westerburg, Verbandsgemeinde, sixth row of results. Retrieved July 11, 2020 .